Monday, September 5, 2011

Cheeseburger Soup

I have been telling everyone on facebook that I have been in a soup sort of mood lately.

The weather is nowhere near cool by me right now but once the kids are back in school, my

mind just gradually turns to all things fall. Football games, apple picking, hay rides and warm, comforting soup. And this soup is definitely what I would call comfort soup. It takes one of my favorite foods and transforms it into a creamy, flavor-packed soup. This one got a thumbs up from my hubby and resident taste-tester, Gene.

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It's funny, my favorite home-cooked recipe was not my favorite when I was little, but now that I am grown up it takes me right back to memories of my mom. She passed away 2 years ago this month and so it is all the more valuable to me for that reason. It had no name when I was growing up but a few years back we decided to call it "man stew" because all the men we knew loved it. I still need to write it down because it is one of those "in your head" recipes. Gooseberry Patch is something she loved, so I hope I get to try some of these great recipes! :) Heather C. hebshops@gmail.com

The recipes you have posted from the cookbooks look so yummy! I need to try them. My favorite home-cooked recipe is by far my Grandma's chicken and dressing. In fact I made it for my family this weekend and it didn't last very long! It brings back so many find memories of family meals at Grandma's and it a wonderful comfort food.

When I think of home cooked meals I think of my grandmother and her chicken and dumplings and blackberry cobbler. Or her meatloaf and rice pudding. Or her fried fish and sheet cake....man I am sooo hungry!!! Wonderful giveaway and thank you!

My favorite home cooked meal would have to be chicken and home made egg noodles. My grandma used to make the noodles and hang them to dry all over her kitchen. Those were fun times.Kimki.barnes@att.net

I've been wanting to make cheeseburger soup for a while now. It looks so good! I think that my all time favorite home cooked meals changes pretty frequently. Right now it's chicken fried steak, pepper gravy and mashed potatoes.

Our family favorite meal is a big turkey dinner with all the fixin's. We only have it once, maybe twice, a year. That's one of the reasons why it seems so special. I've been looking for a good cheese based soup for a while now, I think I'll give this a try :) TY!~Jodisunflower827@mail.com

My favorite home cooked meal is Home Made Chicken Noodle soup made by my husband. He makes the best! Whenever anyone is sick, he makes his soup for us. He even made it up ahead of time one time before he had surgery so he could recoup on his soup!!1snowmanlover2@yahoo.comhttp://www.snowmanlover.blogspot.comThanks for the chance for the great cookbook! Love Gooseberry Patch!!

One of my all time favorite meals is Home made chicken and noodles! I used to love watching my grandma roll out noodles and remember how I would make many mnay trips to the kitchen just to look at them spread out on her giant wood noodle board while they dried....dwmarks33@comcast.net

We've had something of a cold snap in Austin with a high of only 90 today! Woke up to cool 50's! So, soups are definitely in our future and I printed this one out right away. My favorite home cooked meal is Pizza Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and a fresh veggie. But, pretty much anything with cheese gets my vote (: Thanks for the recipe!

My favorite all time is our handed down recipe of Hungarian Chicken Paprikash....my Great Grandmother from Hungary made it...my Grandmother made it...my mother made it now I make it...yumm....ciao4now64@yahoo.com

My mom has always made this yummy dinner that she calls "Heavenly Hamburger." It's the only dish that I can remember eating a lot as a child and she still makes it for us today. I've tried to make it for my family, but my mom makes it better.Krissy - kbmint@otelco.net

My favorite home cooked meal has to be Homemade Chicken and Noodles. I remember my grandma making this whenever we had a family gathering. She would make the noodles by hand and I remember her rolling them out on a huge cutting board and cutting the noodles with the biggest butcher knife I had ever seen. She passed away over 20 years ago and I always think of her whenever I make this recipe.

My favorite is what I call soup steak with mashed potatoes. My mom would make round steak slow cooked with a can of cream of mushroom or cream of celery soup. Growing up we got to pick what we would have for dinner on our Birthday and this was always my pick. SO simple yet SOOOO good!Trishap1973@yahoo.com

Now that I've said that, I'd like to say what perfect timing this cheeseburger soup recipe is! We had a BBQ Saturday and we have about a dozen leftover burgers, about 8 oz. of leftover homemade Velveeta + Rotel queso and a couple of jalapenos still hanging on our plant in the garden. AND some leftover cooked bacon for our burgers.

Oh, I've had a soup like that and it was incredible!!!! My favorite home-cooked meal is Thomas Keller's fried chicken. It's brined with lemons and all kinds of herbs then dunked in buttermilk and seasoned flour and fried up. It's the best fried chicken I've ever had! Kate@kateiscooking

Thanks so much for the opportunity of winning this book!!My very favorite homecooked meal is a beef roast, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans and cucumbers and onions. When I was growing up my Polish/German/Russian Aunties fixed the cucumbers with cream and vinegar. We didn't have cream so Mom always made it with mayo and vinegar and that's how I make it...Love It!!

My very favorite meal is my moms chicken and dumplings. I have tried for years to make this but I don't even come close to my moms. She has been gone for a long time and I still miss her every day. She made her dumplings big and soooo fluffy they would melt in your mouth! Thank you for all of these great receipes. Mirlinmirlindobson2@gmail.com

Our family favorite is an ever-changing thing. Right now it is fish tacos. But now that I have discovered your blog (thanks to the FoodBuzz Top 9 ) I am sure we will find something that will win us over and replace those. Your recipes make me feel at home! Thanks for sharing!

It's funny but my all time favorite would be hand rolled (not with the machine) noodles, with chicken, green beans, and good old home made yeast rolls! My mother in law made the best noodles! I love all of your recipes! They sure help to keep our meals from falling into a monotonous routine! Thank you!!ldbk@comcast.net

My favorite meal is Chicken stew with home made noodles! Still my favorite on a cold day. Thanks for this chance to win a copy of the cook book. I've not seen one from Gooseberry Patch before so it would be neat to have one.

My favorite meal we call steak casserole. It is round steak coated in flour, browned, and baked in the oven covered in cream of mushroom soup. It is so yummy with mashed potatoes for the gravy. I would love to win the Gooseberry Patch cookbook. Their recipes always sound so good. Thank you for the opportunity.ladybug8@bellsouth.net

My Mother's Italian Pot Roast. We always serve it with spaghetti. It's my all-time fovorite. She fixed it for me on every birthday.Very simple "gravy" studded with carrots and mushrooms. It's making me hungry just telling you about it!

My favorite meal was cooked by my grandmother and after church we all would gather over her house for the Sunday dinner. She would have cooked the Sunday dinner on Saturday evening and just heat it up what needed to be heated for after Church Sunday dinner. She cooked fried chicken, potato salad, sweet peas, homemade rolls, coconut cake and sweet tea. At times I will cook this for our Sunday dinner the way my grandmother did.Elizabeth elizabedu3@aol.com

I actually have 2 home-cooked meals that I would call favorites. One was my Mother's Peppered Steak. It's been many years since I've had it as she passed away 29 years ago. A more current favorite is my mother-in-laws chicken chow mein. I have her recipe, but of course, when I fiz it, it never tastes the same.I can hardly wait to try this Cheeseburger Soup. I will be fixing it tomorrow.rhondaree1958@yahoo.com

My most favorite has got to be Hungarian Nockral. Or as our family calls them, Niffles. My Grandmother would make these, and I would eat til I was miserable! They are like drop dumplings, but not as airy. Drenched in butter and salt and pepper, talk about comfort food! :) Thanks for all the wonderful recipes you've shared and introduced to us Brandi, you rock!

My all time favorite homemade meal is my Mom's lasagna...it takes her ALL day to make it and she does everything from scratch and boy can you taste it in every bite...I recently turned 40 and for my 40th birthday she surprised me and made a huge pan of it with all the fixins on the side, fresh Italian salad and homemade rolls...it was to die for and I thoroughly enjoyed every bite! I am grateful to still have my Mom around to make this for me:)My contact info is poppprincess2@hotmail.com and my name is Angela Popp

My all time favorite is one of three meats, meatloaf, roastbeef or turkey served with FF and gravy on both, fries and meat. Slaw was always the side. I was born in the fifties and had grandparents that loved to eat at roadside diners. I am now showing signs of this in my figure. Back then you got home cooked food at diners not frozen or fast order.

Favorite meal?...hmmm....I reckon it is macaroni & cheese, creamed potatoes, broccoli with cheese sauce, green beans (my mom's are the best!) and just about any other vegetable (except turnip greens :o)& homemade rolls with honey-cinnamon butter. Thank you for sharing so many good recipes!

My favorite homecooked meal is my grandmother's collard greens with some pot roast. Everytime I think about eating that, it reminds me of the special times that I've spent in the kitchen with my grandmother teaching me how to cook.

What a great soup for fall! My favorite home cooked meal is probably enchiladas and mexican rice. I love my rice recipe - full of avocados and green onions. And then enchiladas are spicy and full of our favorite stuff!

Not a meal but a tasty dessert! We called it 'orange stuff' then and we call it 'orange stuff' now. It's a collaboration of tasty foods to make a orang-ey dessert substance that's heaven to the mouth. We also have strawberry and pineapple versions. I'd love to win!

My favorite homemade recipes was my mothers homemade stuffing balls. During the holidays everyone had some form of stuffing but mom would prepare hers and form them into balls and put them on a cookie sheet and put them in the oven. The outside would be crunchy and the inside warm and moist. I miss moms food, she passed away two years ago.

Looks like a wonderful book! :) Favorite homecooked meal...hmmm...would have to be pork roast, mashed potatoes, blackeyed peas and cornbread. Of course in our family you *always* have to mix the taters and peas together! :) I could make a meal out of those 2 alone! lol Comfort on a plate. :)

This cheeseburger soup looks amazing!!!! I saw it featured on Foodbuzz's top 10, congrats... that's awesome! Oh it looks fantastic, I could eat a bowl or two right now, especially since it's chilly and rainy here and I need this comforting soup!

I would love to win that cookbook! My fave homecooked meal right now is Zuppa Toscana, but I always love me some steak and potatoes :)

Really hard to choose! I think that my favorite meal would have to be when we first pick up our freshly pressed olive oil and my wife makes Spaghetti Carbonara with bacon and good Italian sausage.Then I smother it with the 'olio nuovo'! Nothing better!

Hi Brandie!My fave...well i have 2 One would be chicken and dumplings from my friend Sarah form N.C. she made the best and the other would be her Sunday roast, biscuits and fresh picked green beans! Those are my two all time faves :)Thanks so much for the chance!~Mippy :)bunnysmip (AT) yahoo (DOT) com

It's so hard to pick a favorite meal because most food is tied to memories and I have so many! My mother passed away 7 years ago, but was well known for her noodles! People called her all the time to make noodles for them! So my mothers fabulous chicken and noodles with mashed potatoes, green beans and bacon, and big fluffy biscuits with homemade apple butter has to be my all time fav! Thank you for the awesome giveaway! leesasilvers@gmail.com

My all-time favorite meal has to be my grandma's chicken and noodles. I used to watch her mix that dough up and roll it out, flour it and then dress for church on Sunday morning. She'd leave them drying on the dining room table while we were at church and when got back home, she'd roll them up and slice them and put them in with the chicken that had been cooked earlier that morning. She made pure egg noodles "her way", and no recipe I've ever found comes close to that taste and believe me, I think I've tried them all! She passed away about 30 years ago without giving me her recipe. When I asked her for it, she said there wasn't one....it was just stuff she threw together.

I never really had a specific meal I loved but I do soooooo adore my mom's home made mac and cheese in the over... was so simple and crunchy on top yuuummmmm that and she used to make home made milk shakes that were sooooo thick - ice cream-mil-chocolate syrup till smooth... was a special treat for sure.

MY favorite home cooked meal is ( believe it or not_ Ox tails with gravy over rice. My boyfriend's family is from down south and I was a bit hesitant at fiorst but it is the BEST most tender meat I ahve ever tasted.

My favorite home cooked meal is ( believe it or not) Ox tails with gravy over rice. My boyfriend's family is from down south and although I was a bit hesitant at first I absolutely LOVE it. It is the BEST most tender meat I have ever tasted.

I have to thank My Friend Michelle's Mom for introducing me to this recipe in my teen years My all time favorite meal to serve to those I love and prepare when in need of some homemade comfort food.. I love this recipe.... Cheesy Hashbrown And Porkchop Casserole served with green beans and chunky homemade apple sauce.. It's my favorite meal to eat and serve to my love one... no better way to show love

I have a couple favorite homecooked meals: My mom's fried chicken, mashed potatoes and corn on the cob or my dad's venison lasagna. I can eat either of these any day of the week. Today I also found a new favorite its your Honey Bun cake... YUMMYnanny_yaya81@yahoo.com .... amanda

Hm.. maybe shepards pie... But its hard to just pick one. Pretty much anything with mashed potatoes! (or maybe just carbs) Lol. Although nothing is better than homemade chicken and dumplings when I'm not feelin so great.

Thanks for reviewing another great Gooseberry Patch cookbook! The recipes sound great, and I am definitely going to try the Loaded Potato Soup.

My favorite all-time home cooked meal would have to be my mother's fried chicken with mashed potatoes, whatever vegetables that were around at the time, home-made biscuits, and pies (apple and pumpkin). My all-time favorite home cooked meal that I myself make is pot roast. I cook the pot roast separately from the potatoes because my grandson doesn't like the potatoes and carrots mixed in with the meat (he'll learn; he's only 13) and I mash the potatoes because that's the way he likes them. Then I fix corn as well as the carrots, 'cause neither of my grandchildren like carrots at this point.

Would love to win the cookbook; it sounds like it will be one of their best ever!Thanks for the reviews!

My favorite homecooked meal is my mom's "Sticky Chicken," rice and gravy, green/wax beans, biscuits, cucumbers in vinegar and peach kuchen for dessert. My mom first fries the very best fried chicken EVER. Then she makes her gravy (not milk gravy) and adds back several pieces into the gravy and lets it simmer until the crust of the chicken absorbs the gravy and becomes sticky. OMG. LITERALLY finger lickin' good. You cannot eat it without licking your fingers!

Well this was kind of tough, it my mother growing up wasn't much of a cook, she mostly just threw things together and called it some kind of casserole LOL but there was one thing that I liked it was her Peppered steak over rice! She probably only made it once a year so we really looked forward to it!!

My favorite meal my grandmother always made for me on my birthday was roastbeef, mashed potatoes, carrots, homemade noodles, homemade rolls, and angelfood cake with strawberries and ice cream for dessert. I looked forward to it every year. Now I make it for my daughter as its her favorite meal too.

Favourite home cooked meal. I call it Shepherds pie but really it is Cottage pie because I use beef. I love it because it brings back memories of childhood in England. I love it because its tasty and filling and just as good as leftovers next day. Goes a long way.Janice

My favorite home cooked meal has to be the Chicken and Dumplings my grandmother made. I loved them and she made them for me all the time. Another favorite was stuffed cabbage rolls she made. I miss her so much and would give anything to have one last home cooked meal with her.rebelledesigns@hotmail.com

I think the soup recipe looks YUMMY!! I hope to be trying it SOON! My favorite meal would be Fried Chicken, Mac & cheese & green beans! I have lots of favorites but this on is my go to when company is coming. Thanks for the chance at the awesome book!

Our favorite home cooked meals are for my husband chicken and dumplings, his mother always made this for him & it is a definite comfort food for him! For myself our family makes what we call goulash, we use ground beef, rice, diced tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, heavy cream & butter & place in the oven! Heavenly! Tina, mom23boysinohio@yahoo.com

My favorite home cooked meal was my Mom's home made bean soup, with home made biscuits. It was a thick soup, chock full of beans, carrots, onions and chunks of ham, and Mom served up warm,buttery biscuits to "dip" into the soup. Mom died a year ago last May and I never got her recipe. When I think of that soup, I think of cold fall days, filled with love and laughter and Mom. Danni Wyattfreesoulflyn@aol.com

Mr favorite when I was little was the special spaghetti sauce my Mom made in the pressure cooker. She would put in all the usual, but added pork country ribs. It was so tender, so different and so delicious!

My FAVORITE meal would be my Mom's homemade mac and cheese with ham and green onions. My second favorite is chicken in a basket (breakfast) made on Saturday mornings by my Dad. My husband and daughter loves my chicken and dumplings. I hope to one day pass on all of these recipes to my daughter for her children.

Of course my all time favorite has to be Turkey Dinner with all the trimmings and pumpkin pie for dessert! (Mashed potatoes, mashed turnips, homemade stuffing with summer savory, gravy, coleslaw and a variety of homemade pickles. Doesn't get any better than this!P.S. I would LOVE to win this great cookbook!taylor_laurie@hotmail.com

Coming from a big Italian family, my all time favorite homecooked meal would have to be that all day spaghetti sauce...yummy! I remember watching my dad make it for years and now, here I am, making it for my own family! Thanks for the giveaway! missgidgette75@hotmail.com

I have such happy memories of Sunday dinners. My mother would put a pot roast with potatoe's, carrots, and onions in the oven before we left for church. What a wonderful fragrance we smelled when we got home. The whole family would sit around the table to a memborable time and a delicious meal. (After clean-up, afternoon nap). :o)

OOPS -- so excited to tell about my favorite meal and didn't leave my name :( My FAVORITE meal would be my Mom's homemade mac and cheese with ham and green onions. My second favorite is chicken in a basket (breakfast) made on Saturday mornings by my Dad. My husband and daughter loves my chicken and dumplings. I hope to one day pass on all of these recipes to my daughter for her children. Amy E. ajoeverett@hotmail.com

Chicken & Dressing! I got the recipes from my Grandmother & my Husbands Grandmother & combined them but irionicly the one ingredient either one of them used I got from my gooseberry patch cookbook & that is cream of chicken soup. My 93 year young Granny said I've perfected it! I'm very proud of my chicken & dressing but if only I could make her chocolate pie...

My favorite home cooked meal is the traditional Thanksgiving dinner with all of the fixings! My mom makes the best stuffing! I can't wait to try the Cheeseburger soup. Perfect for the beginning of fall!Tamirtsperr@runestone.net

My favorite home cooked meal is Macaroni and Cheese, my mom's version. I try to make it like hers, but it just isn't the same! Still love Macaroni and Cheese no matter what though, and cooked in various different ways, like with tuna fish or hamburger. Jenny - runningpony@gmail.com

My favorite meal has always been my grandmothers chicken and dumplings. She was from Savannah, GA and always made the best down home southern comfort food ever. Sadly since she passed I have not been able to replicate her dish. Still looking through her things to see if she ever wrote down her recipe.

It has to be my husband Richard's Birthday dinner. He would make Fried chicken breast, mashed potatoes and pan gravy, baked corn and green bean casserole. He made this for all of the children's birthday. The kids are now 33,31,28 and Richard has passed on but I have taken over this job. It's not the same but I feel it's very good.

I would have to say mine and my family's favorite meal would have to be my Italian meatloaf served with rice and green beans. We can't get enough. My son lives in MO now and when he comes home that is on the top of his list of food he misses. YUM!

Just one favorite meal? Don't know if I can narrow it down. There's the Lamb Curry Stew I cook on top of my wood stove in the winter. And the Cajun Meatloaf that is an Emeril recipe. And Chicken Cordon Bleu Lasagna. Just too many favorites!

I guess out of so many to choose from it would be what my grandma called TV dinners. She would get steak or cube steak, canned veggies drained, season everything and wrap it up in tin foil and put it in the oven it was so good!!! fond memories of her.. Thank you.

I have so many favorite home-made meals and the top one would be home-made meatloaf that I've managed to perfected BOTH my mother's and mother-in-law's recipes. Meatloaf and mashed potatoes with green beans ... how can life go wrong?

My favorite meal involved anything my granny cooked that included her potato salad as a side dish. Unfortunately, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and we didn't think at the time to ask her for the recipe. No one has it and she is no longer with us. It taught me a valuable lesson about not putting off writing down the family recipes!

I love grilled burgers. I want them cooked over charcoal with hickory chips, not gas. There's nothing like them. I like worchestershire, liquid smoke, Cavendar's seasoning and onion soup mix in them. Top them off with pickle, onion, tomato and mustard and I'm in heaven. Keena Dixon jkdixon@ritternet.com

My favorite home-made meal is my Dad's spaghetti sauce. He's been gone 8 years now, but my Mom still has his receipe. It is so good and I only have it when I go home to Philly. I miss both my Dad and his sauce. Mine is really good but does not come close!

I would have to say that my favorite meal growing up was my mom's homemade enchiladas. Whenever I was sick, I had different favorites- tuna casserole and tapioca pudding-which I think most people do, right? LOL. I STILL love my mom's enchiladas, but I haven't had them in years. My e-mail address is songgirlc@yahoo.com. Thank you!!!

My favorite homecooked item is different from my favorite homecooked meal. LOVED my mother's mac & cheese, so have put a twist on it to make it into a meal rather than a side dish. Elbow macaroni, add ham cubes to the end of the boiling to mix it all together, drain. Stir in cheese sauce made with a rue and using sharp cheddar cheese (we use Tillamook) and sometimes I add in a bit of Swiss, or cream cheese, or Monterey Jack, or Muenster ... mix it up! Put it all in a casserole dish. Top with Italian Bread crumbs (also my touch as I love the crispiness of it!). Bake and YUM! Sometimes I even put the veggie in ... broccoli or peas. I always make more than I need because the kids love the leftovers. My mother would serve a pea casserole (peas, mixed with a cream soup, crunchy stuff on top). A dinner of ham, mac & cheese, and pea casserole was out of this world!

I love to make french dips in the crock pot. I make extra of the dipping juice so when all of the meat is gone it can be frozen and used to make french onion soup! So yummy on a cold day! Lora....lorabeverly@yahoo.com

Just reading through all the comments, takes me back........ I was blessed to be raised in a large family with wonderful cooks.... but my favorite recipe is homemade chicken and noodles,, fresh butchered farm chicken,, simmered for a day with herbed salt made by a family member from an organic herb bed and homemade thick noodles.... made from scratch that day ,, house smelled wonderful all day!.......... Soups are the comfort food .. thats a lost art in this generation.

Mmmmm...I can taste it now...fried chicken, homemade mashed potatoes and gravy, and fried corn! My Mom would probably also add another veggie, just so she felt like it was a balanced meal...fried green tomatoes or fried eggplant...yummmmm.Can you tell we're from the South? We love our fried food!

I love a cousins fried chicken and mashed potatos, and my Mom's homemade french onion soup. I like to try new recipes all the time, but I haven't made french onion soup yet. YUMM..now I have a taste for soup!! Jenny...jaak97@wildblue.net

My favorite meal is my Dad's Cornell BBQ'ed chicken and salt potatoes. I live in Canada now, by way of Alaska, Colorado, South Carolina and Florida... but I grew up in Upstate NY and back home in Syracuse, NY, there's no more classic a Summer meal. To me, the tastes and smells are simply home. Trysha, estrogensea@gmail.com